President Reed of Pennsylvania: A Reply to Mr. George Bancroft and Others ... February, A.D. 1867 |
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Page 63 - We have wisdom, virtue and strength enough to save us if they could be called into action. The northern army has shown us what Americans are capable of doing with a general at their head. The spirit of the southern army is no way inferior to the spirit of the northern. A Gates, a Lee or a Conway would in a few weeks render them an irresistible body of men.
Page 63 - The spirit of the southern army is no way inferior to the spirit of the northern. A Gates, a Lee, or a Conway, would in a few weeks render them an irresistible body of men. The last of the above officers has accepted of the new office of inspectorgeneral of our army, in order to reform abuses ; but the remedy is only a palliative one.
Page 121 - While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge in this place, the peculiar services and distinguished merits of the gentlemen who have been attached to my person during the war. It was impossible the choice of confidential officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate.
Page 117 - It is impossible for any one to have an idea of the complete equality which exists between the officers and men who compose the greater part of our troops. You may form some notion of it when I tell you that yesterday morning a captain of horse, who attends the General, from Connecticut, was seen shaving one of his men on the parade near the., h.guse.
Page 42 - I will not disguise my own sentiments, that our cause is desperate and hopeless, if we do not take the opportunity of the collection of troops at present, to strike some stroke.
Page 100 - Prepare, and, in concert with Griffin, attack as many of their posts as you possibly can with a prospect of success ; the more we can attack at the same instant, the more confusion we shall spread, and the greater good will result from it.
Page 100 - Trenton. For Heaven's sake keep this to yourself, as the discovery of it may prove fatal to us...
Page 43 - General, with small, flattering appearances; we must not suffer ourselves to be lulled into security and inaction, because the enemy does not cross the river. It is but a reprieve ; the execution is the more certain, for I am very clear that they can and will cross the river, in spite of any opposition we can give them. " Pardon the freedom I have used. The love of my country, a wife and four children in the enemy's hands, the respect and attachment I have to you, the ruin and poverty that must attend...
Page 31 - Sir, if every nerve is not strained to recruit the new army with all possible expedition, I think the game is pretty nearly up...
Page 76 - Mills, a justice of the peace in and for said county, and being duly sworn on the holy evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that on...